test-first skillA
test-first is agent-read markdown (skill) from llopresto87/cypress: The test-SHAPING technique applied inside the test-first protocol — pick the lowest test level that exercises the behavior (unit, integration, contract, e2e, golden, property-based, evaluation), name the test after the spec contract, and assert one outcome per test. The workflow itself (entry conditions, RED-GREEN-REFACTOR-COMMIT gates, variants, exceptions) is the test-first protocol..
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What the file says
# test-first (the test-shaping technique) The cycle — RED → GREEN → REFACTOR → COMMIT, its per-phase gates, the characterize-first rule, the bug-fix and refactor variants, the migration safety gate, and the recorded exceptions — lives in `docs/graph/protocols/test-first.md`, the one home for the workflow. This skill owns the craft of shaping each test the cycle asks for. ## Test level selection Pick the lowest level that exercises the behavior. | Level | Use when | |-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | Unit | Pure logic, transformations, parsers, validators. | | Integration | Crossing an adapter (DB, file, network, SDK, model). | | Contract | API endpoints, structured outputs, message schemas. | | End-to-end | Critical flows — one or two per flow, no more. | | Golden / snapshot | Deterministic transforms, prompts, renderers. | | Property-based | Algorithms where the property is clearer than examples. | | Evaluation | LLM/VLM behavior, with rubrics and pass thresholds. | ## Test shape …
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How to install
mdr add llopresto87/cypress/test-first@git:20260915.df30567mdr add llopresto87/cypress/test-first@sha256:cee39a13a3bad2e5Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
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| git:20260915.df30567 latest | 2026-09-15 | df30567 | 3,108 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260831.6dde434 | 2026-08-31 | 6dde434 | 2,926 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3108 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
llopresto87/cypress · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
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